Education

White House hits back at Twitter critics of student loan relief..

The White House’s official Twitter account, @WhiteHouse, normally smuggles in static infographics and excerpts from temperate government speeches, but on Thursday night it took an aggressive turn. In six tweets, the White House account cited a ..

Affirmative action was banned at two of the top universities. They say they need it..

It has been more than 15 years since two of the nation’s top public university systems, the University of Michigan and the University of California, were forced to stop using affirmative action in admissions. Since then, both systems have ..

A new scheme for student loans..

President Biden said he would wipe out a significant amount of debt for millions of Americans. But the question remains how the proposal will work..

White House orders free and immediate access to publicly funded research..

According to a White House directive, academic journals must provide immediate access to publicly funded papers, providing a major win for advocates of open research and eliminating a policy that allowed publishers to pay for one year. The ..

Remote scan of student’s room before test violates his privacy, judge rules..

A federal judge said Monday that it was unconstitutional for a university in Ohio to scan a chemistry student’s bedroom before taking a remote exam, a decision that could affect how popular schools are during the COVID-19 pandemic. use remote-..

Biden student loan plan completely targets the middle class..

WASHINGTON — The big winners of President Biden’s plan to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans aren’t the wealthy graduates of Harvard and Yale, as many critics claim. Indeed, Mr. Biden’s proposals will benefit ..

Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan divides elected officials, including Democrats..

Elected officials were divided this week over President Biden’s announcement of student loan forgiveness not only along party lines but also within the Democratic Party. Mr. Biden’s action would cancel a $10,000 loan for Americans earning..

DeSantis won the majority of school board candidates supported in Florida..

Miami — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was not on the ballot in Tuesday’s first vote. Neither was any other big-name Republican. But it appears Republican voters have gone to the polls anyway, weighing in on a somewhat unusual new political ..

Biden cancels $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000..

WASHINGTON — President Biden will announce Wednesday that he is canceling $10,000 in student loan debt for Americans earning $125,000 or less per year and pausing payments for all borrowers until Dec. The months of anticipation are capping off on a ..

Brown University acquires Mumiya Abu-Jamali’s papers..

Providence, RI – For years, Mumiya Abu-Jamal was the face of the anti-death penalty movement in the United States. A former Black Panther sentenced to death in the 1981 murder of a police officer, he became a best-selling author and commentator..

De Blasio, Red Sox lover, head of Harvard..

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made no secret of being a Boston Red Sox fan, will become a visiting teacher at Harvard University in the fall. Mr. de Blasio, who ran for governor and then Congress, said his new position would allow ..

Biden to announce decision on student loan debt affecting millions of borrowers..

WASHINGTON — President Biden will announce a decision on Wednesday about his plans for student loan debt relief, a highly anticipated moment that could affect about 45 million borrowers nationwide, according to people familiar with the matter. ..

Big Ten Players Wonder Where They Fit Into $1 Billion TV Deal..

Javier Johnson, point guard for the basketball team at Indiana University, echoed Stroud. Johnson said it would be fair for players to get a “small percentage” of the billion-dollar deal. “People only come to watch the players play..

Texas School District Removes Bible and Anne Frank Adaptations in Back-to-School Sweep..

A day before students in North Texas returned to classrooms, a school district ordered principals and librarians to remove books, including the Bible and the graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s “The Diary of a Young Girl,” from..

He’s in Brown. His heart is still in Kabul..

An unexpected loophole presented itself: in the form of university temporary refuge. In 2018, Ariane Mack, a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York, founded the New Universities in Exile Consortium, a group of about..

21,000 fish die in ‘catastrophic failure’ at California Research Center..

About 21,000 fish at an aquatic research center at the University of California, Davis, died from exposure to chlorine, which the university described as a “catastrophic failure” that shocked researchers and would have significantly ..

opinion | After 4 Years of College, Many Students Don’t Know Where to Go Next..

These patterns of academic thinking soon permeate his personal life. Being asked to give reasons for his personal decisions is to entertain the possibility that such reasons exist. Thomas Aquinas, another author of our course, calls the cause which ..

CDC eases COVID guidelines, eliminates quarantine..

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 community and school guidance on Thursday, loosening several key recommendations. According to the new guidelines, people who have been exposed to the virus are no longer required to..

New York City may cut school budget, reinstate court rules..

More than $200 million in New York City public school budget cuts are in effect, at least temporarily, the state’s appeals court on Tuesday overturned a lower court decision asking the city to redistribute the budget. was required to do. The ..

Former Boston School Official Pleads Guilty to Racketeering..

A former Boston public school official who recruited at-risk students into the Latin Kings gang and had the students distribute drugs on campus pleaded guilty to racketeering charges on Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of ..

opinion | Armed Teachers: A Misguided ‘Solution’..

to the Editor: Re “Armed. And Ready to Teach Kindergarten” (front page, July 31): As both a parent of school children and a US citizen with common sense values, I am deeply disturbed by this article. Creating a school rapid response force..

Final sentence cleared after 329 years in Salem Witch Trials..

Elizabeth Johnson Jr. is – officially – not a witch. As of last week, the Andover, Mass., woman, who confessed to practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, was the only remaining person convicted during the trials whose name ..

Trained, armed and ready. To teach kindergarten..

At Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, the first 911 call was made after about five minutes, and first officers arrived at the school less than four minutes later. Nevertheless, 20 children and six adults were killed. In Parkland, Fla..

opinion | Go south and replace it..

to the Editor: To Margaret Renkel’s challenge – “Don’t like the politics of the South? Move here and vote” (Opinion, July 20) – my response is that I don’t need to and I don’t know why I would. I may ..

opinion | Money Alone Won’t Buy US Tech Superiority..

The reason for this skill gap is that people in the United States who already work in the semiconductor industry tend to have experience in chip design, not manufacturing. Over the years, many American companies ordered chips from overseas contract ..

University of Utah acknowledges ‘shortcomings’ in handling of domestic abuse case..

Zifan Dong was only at the University of Utah for a few months when she raised the first alarm: she told a residential director of the university’s housing department that her ex-boyfriend, who lived in the same dorm building, had assaulted her..

Judith Schiff, who roamed Yale’s vast collection, dies at 84..

Judith A. Schiff, who worked with Charles Lindbergh on their collections during his many decades as chief research archivist at the Yale University Library, researched the papers of Emily Dickinson’s editor, and more about the university and ..

New reading curriculum mired in debate over race and gender..

Professor Lucy Calkins at Columbia University has long been a controversial figure in the academia for her approach to reading. His eagerly anticipated new curriculum was meant to address his critics with a more research-backed, phonetic-based ..

A new national survey found that one in five American adults admit to political violence..

One in five adults in the United States would be willing to denounce acts of political violence, a new national survey commissioned by public health experts found, revealing what they say captures a rise in extremism that 6 It was displayed during ..

Hochul says NY students probably won’t have to wear a mask, but maintains a public transit mandate..

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she did not anticipate schoolchildren would be required to wear masks when they returned to school in September, but she was keeping a statewide mask mandate on public transportation for now. “We are..

Hochul says he doesn’t think NY students will have to wear masks, but the public transit mandate remains in place..

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she did not anticipate that schoolchildren would be required to wear masks when they returned to school in September, but she was keeping a statewide mask mandate on public transportation for now. “..

87 of Albert Van, who built a Black Power base in Brooklyn. died at the age of..

Albert Vann, who for four decades as a progressive New York state and New York City lawmaker helped move the black political center of gravity from Harlem to Brooklyn, where he challenged the white-dominated Democratic machine, died Friday. He died ..

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh speaks out on anti-abortion program..

University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh professed his anti-abortion views at a fund-raising event this week, Roe v. Wade became one of the first major sports figures to speak out against abortion since the reversal. According to ..

Students are learning well again. But full recovery? It’s a long way to go..

As the coronavirus pandemic sent a blow through the US education system, disrupting the education of millions of children, a new report offers a glimmer of hope: By the end of the last school year, many students had returned to a normal pace of ..

Some students want colleges to give the abortion pill. Schools are protesting..

Many colleges pride themselves on providing a variety of sexual and reproductive health services for their students, including birth control, screening for sexually transmitted diseases, and even insurance coverage to terminate a pregnancy. What they..

Biden administration backs down on threat to withdraw Arizona relief fund..

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration backed off its threat to withhold pandemic aid money from Arizona earlier this year after it was accused of misusing funds to dilute school mask mandates. A spokesman for Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, ..

Hawaii, the last state with an indoor mask mandate for public schools, will make masks optional..

Hawaii has stuck with a mask mandate longer than any other state. It waited until the end of March, when the first Omicron surge was occurring, to drop its requirement for most indoor public settings – and even then, the requirement was retained for ..

For Uvalde families, a call for answers grows louder..

UVALDE, Texas — Kimberly Rubio and her husband, Felix, took the stage at Uvalde Plaza next to City Hall on Sunday evening while taking a photo of their slain daughter, Alexandria Aniah Rubio, better known as Lexi. And read aloud part of the mission ..

Colombia loses its No. 2 spot in US news rankings..

What is the equivalent of “dissolved” or “defrocked” in the world of college rankings? Could it be “Unranked”? Without fanfare, U.S. News & World Report announced that it had “unranked” Columbia ..

Former Georgetown tennis coach sentenced to over 2 years in Varsity Blues case..

A former head tennis coach at Georgetown University, who last pleaded guilty to taking bribes to help potential students get into school, was convicted Friday for more than two years, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of ..

Power 5? A Mighty 2 may soon be dominated by college sports..

So reform has become an accepted sport in all conference offices. The Big 12 has gone on to add schools such as Cincinnati and Central Florida. Many, many around the ACC, the only Power 5 conference whose membership has been unaffected by this round ..

Solwig Gould is proud to be wife of ‘cancelled’ Princeton professor..

And when Dr. Katz lost her job, Ms. Gould immediately published an essay about their relationship in Common Sense, a newspaper run by Bari Weiss, a former writer and editor for The New York Times’ opinion department. was. (“My alma mater ..

Colombia will not participate in the next US news rankings..

Columbia University will not participate in the next U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges across the country after a Columbia math professor questioned the accuracy of the data that took its No. 2 spot in the impressive ranking, the ..

UCLA and USC set to join Big Ten, Rattling College Sports..

UCLA and Southern California on Thursday appeared set to jump from the Pac-12 conference to the Big Ten in the coming years, a move that would trigger another seismic remake of the competitive and economic landscape of college sports. The maneuver ..

Schools Are Spending Billions on Hi-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings..

Reed Bauer was finishing lunch at his middle school in the Atlanta area last year when the alarm, warning of an emergency, began to sound through the halls. Reed, then in sixth grade, had heard the school’s “code red” alert as never..

struggle for admission in one elite high school..

A fiery debate about the criteria for enrolling students in Lowell, California, echoes soul-searching in the American education system..

opinion | 12 Americans die from an overdose every hour. We have the knowledge to stop this..

“Our bill makes it clear that any savings arising from the merger will be reinvested in the system,” says Senator Harkham. “But unions, in particular, are the target of war, and it’s hard to blame them.” Governor Cuomo reduced the ..

opinion | Men’s and Run Around the Supreme Court Offers States a Blueprint on Guns..

What a week so far for conservatives. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that barred religious private schools from receiving taxpayer dollars. And on Thursday, it invalidated New York state’s gun safety law limiting the ..

Ohio State University Trademark ‘The’..

Ohio State University has received a trademark for one of the most common words in the English language, which supporters of the school often emphasize when speaking its name: “the.” The school’s players, alumni, and supporters ..

Inflation complicates Biden’s deliberations on student loan forgiveness..

WASHINGTON — Rising costs of food, gasoline and other staples are further complicating a fierce debate between President Biden and his closest advisers over whether his campaign will help cancel thousands of dollars of student loan debt for millions ..

Boston returns to ‘common ground’ and busking, stage..

BOSTON — It’s been nearly half a century since a federal judge ordered the city’s schools to bus out, and 37 years later author J. Anthony Lucas decried the resulting upheaval in his Pulitzer-winning tome, “Common Ground,” ..

Covid stopped the music. Now this school is hitting the band again..

Surrounded by classroom walls with colorful violins and music theory posters, Roshan Reddy counted three. He raised his palm, a chorus of blazing horns and woodwinds hum to life, and the first notes of Adele’s “Easy on Me” filled ..

Covid stopped the music. Now this school is hitting the band again..

Surrounded by classroom walls with colorful violins and music theory posters, Roshan Reddy counted three. He raised his palm, a chorus of blazing horns and woodwinds hum to life, and the first notes of Adele’s “Easy on Me” filled ..

Bowling Green Fraternity Brothers Punished for Hedging Death of Student..

Five men convicted of charges related to the death of a 20-year-old Bowling Green State University student in March 2021 were sentenced in Ohio on Thursday, three of whom received up to 28 days in prison. The men, between the ages of 20 and 22, were ..

A businessman has been acquitted in the Georgetown entrance trial..

A wealthy businessman accused of bribing his daughter as a tennis player at Georgetown University was acquitted Thursday by a federal jury in Boston on all counts related to the government’s Varsity Blues investigation into corrupt college ..

Ohio makes it easier for teachers to carry guns to school..

Teachers and other school workers in Ohio will be able to carry firearms to school with a small fraction of the training required from last year, after a bill was signed into law Monday by Governor Mike Devine. . While employees have been allowed to ..

Stonewall Jackson’s name spread rapidly, and a fury quickly followed..

Woodstock, Va. – It was getting late, exactly after 10 a.m., when the Shenandoah County School Board finally found out about the question that had hung over the county for two long and exhausting years. Should Stonewall Jackson return? “..

A racist researcher exposed by a mass shooting..

BRUSSELS – Researcher claims there is a decline in IQ in France linked to mass migration from North Africa. He has co-authored a book about the global decline of intelligence, detailing the relationship between ethnicity and cognitive abilities..

Harvard president to step down next year..

The committee appointed one of its own members, Dr. Bako had to review 700 different candidates before deciding on his own. Dr. Bako was credited with lobbying Congress for more liberal visa policies for international students during the pandemic, ..